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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1912
Page
2
A survey extols a Hudon Maxim concept for a 35 knot armored cruiser with sixteen inch guns arguing it could approach coastal forts and batter fortifications from outside their range. Naval experts counter that such a ship would be mostly machinery and fuel leaving little room for ammunition and the sixteen inch guns.
The passage argues home merchants must keep trade alive through active advertising in the home newspaper. Catalogs and mail orders threaten local retailers, who should align with the advertising spirit of the age to attract town customers and secure bargains for readers.
A Farm Progress correspondent notes that calm dogs that ignore sheep unless guidance is needed work best. Mixed shepherd crosses rival purebreds, retaining sheep sense. Cattle driving dogs prove rough for sheep and crosses with hounds or terriers stay efficient. In Idaho, Utah, Montana many herders rely on trained shepherd dogs miles from any town.
Conductor Towler of the Lightning Express faces a mysterious pale man with red hair and gold spectacles who insists on Bilston. After repeated refusals and a fatal jump, Towler’s health fails and he is found dead in an empty car as the train departs Bilston.
A story about Joan visiting his uncle in the country during a summer vacation. He rides a horse to the mill for feed and returns with a heavy bag. The uncle questions why the bag was carried on the horse when Joan says it was to ease the horse.
An article from Kansas Farmer advocates tankage as a key hog feed. It urges using tankage during farrowing and suckling, growing, and fattening stages, to provide protein and nitrogen, save corn, and improve hog quality. It argues tankage replaces wasteful corn-only feeding and notes factory-fresh tankage carries no cholera germs.
Good for soil and stock crops include leguminous plants like cowpeas peanuts and soybeans. These crops feed soil by adding nutrients and improve fertility for subsequent plantings.
Practical advice for farmers on alfalfa inoculation with manure spreaders and feeding poultry with potato scraps and carrots. Notes discuss carrot and potato value for livestock, barley and soy blends for pigs, and annual use of stable manure as the top fertilizer for orchards, with quantities for tree fertilization.
Advice from Farm and Home on treating Irish seed potatoes to prevent scab. Soak tubers in a formaldehyde solution made by mixing one germ of formaldehyde to about thirty gallons of water, then drain and air dry after two hours in a sack suspended in the barrel.
A digested excerpt argues that permanent agriculture and soil fertility depend on livestock. It warns farming without new stock risks soil depletion, harming future generations and requiring greater labor, urging cooperation with nature in a broad economic context.
The lesson urges Christian disciples to living consecration and active service. It contrasts self deceit with true faith, stresses self awareness and restraint, and cites scriptural images of foundations and storms to reinforce disciplined growth in Christ.
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